Research Catalog

Title

Liberating gender for Jews and allies : the wisdom of transkeit / edited by Jane Rachel Litman and Jakob Hero-Shaw.

Publication

• Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Litman, Jane Rachel
• Hero-Shaw, Jakob, 1979-

Description

vii, 175 pages; 21 cm

Summary

This extraordinary collection of essays by trans Jews and allies explores cutting-edge ideas about gender through the lenses of tradition, art, autobiography, and solidarity. It features an analysis of Biblical and Rabbinic thinking, sample rituals, guidance on Jewish practice, spoken word poetry, music, trans Jewish history, psychology, and personal stories. The contributing voices are richly diverse and include transpioneer Kate Bornstein, a drag queen rabbi, Jews by Choice, Jews of Color, the Jewish consultant to the show Transparent, Orthodox Jews, a Jewish priestess, and a Metropolitan Community Church minister. Each page reveals startling, fresh insights into the construction and disruption of gender from a Jewish perspective.

Subject

• Gender nonconformity > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Jewish transgender people > Social conditions
• Gender minorities
• Transgenderism
• Jewish transgender people
• Jewish LGBTQ+ people
• Gender nonconformity
• Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and glossary.

Contents

Gender and Tanakh: exploring rabbinic interpretations of gender and sex in the Hebrew Bible / Rabbi Rona Matlow -- "He is a creation onto herself": gender assignment in the Talmud / Rabbi Jane Rachel Litman -- Gender fluidity, the Cherubim, and the divine presence / Rabbi Fern Feldman -- Transgender affirmation in the mikveh: a proposal for a new ritual / Rabbi Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater -- Supporting the Chevra Kadisha/burial society through transition / Noach Dzmura -- Choosing to be chosen: a film showing the striking similarities between conversion and transition / Martin Rawlings-Fein -- A postcard from the Effeminati / Rabbi Irwin Keller -- Body of faith: my twilight Journey / Surat-Shaan Knan -- Say their names: a trans Jewish call for abolition / Enzi Tanner -- The power of the Lord / Mya Byrne -- The beautiful fringe: my Jewish journey of revolution, gender, queerness, and love / Kohenet Ariel Vegosen -- Leslie Feinberg: anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, revolutionary communist / Dr. Marla Brettschneider -- A conversation with Kate Bornstein / Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw -- She said: I know what it's like to be dead / Dr. Joy Ladin -- Yad VaShem / Rabbi Dr. Levi Ethan Alter -- In/difference: snapshots of belonging / Zebulon Hurst -- To be read as true / Jericho Vincent -- In the neighborhood: reflections on allyship / Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw -- An essay from Turk and Taylor, in the era of Black trans lives matter / Levi Maxwell -- Trans Jewish cultural competency in psychotherapy / Dr. Abigail Weissman -- Transparent rabbi: an evolving ally / Rabbi Susan Goldberg.

Call Number

JFD 23-1506

ISBN

• 9781527584419
• 1527584410
• 9781527584426 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1330406676

Title

Liberating gender for Jews and allies : the wisdom of transkeit / edited by Jane Rachel Litman and Jakob Hero-Shaw.

Publisher

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and glossary.

Added Author

Litman, Jane Rachel, editor.

Hero-Shaw, Jakob, 1979- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Liberating gender for Jews and allies. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022 9781527584426 (OCoLC)1338132554

Research Call Number

JFD 23-1506